{"id":1278,"date":"2017-01-09T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T07:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/a-silent-path"},"modified":"2019-08-12T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T00:03:22","slug":"a-silent-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/01\/09\/a-silent-path\/","title":{"rendered":"A Silent Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1442\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326-6136383115220539912259\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?fit=8609%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"8609,417\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?fit=720%2C35&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1442\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259-300x15.png?resize=300%2C15\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"15\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=300%2C15&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=768%2C37&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=1024%2C50&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=1920%2C93&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=720%2C35&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=580%2C28&amp;ssl=1 580w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=320%2C16&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?w=2160&amp;ssl=1 2160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{04\/11\/2016}<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is my own path. I&#8217;m writing this for no one except myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If anyone should read this, be warned: You can not judge, you can not comprehend, you can not apply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are the wonders of my life. Who can claim them for their own?<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>10* for 8** for 9** of 2**\/****. And at such a young age and such through such mundane experiences!<\/li>\n<li>Errors such as a faux-10 directing 3** receiving 5**<\/li>\n<li>Such as mixing 7*, such as 7* within 3**, or within 4** of 10**<\/li>\n<li>Such as addled 10, that directs itself to its own outer, or to 7* at 10, or to 1 qua 10 lower<\/li>\n<li>Divestment of 3* !!<\/li>\n<li>Talmud, Einstein, Plato, the unfolding of Western thought (from c.600BCE to the 1950&#8217;s), the sublimity of molecular biology, neuroscience, the doors of perception, systems, more recently horse ethology (6**-6*-6** what a sublime education and who could have predicted?), Buddhist phenomenology, Hindu and Yoga, the search for the self, discovery of the metaphor of the metaphor, the dreamtime, Kabbalah and Judaism<\/li>\n<li>Who else has described the shape of the spacecraft? (So specifically, directly, with notes on controls for places the majority could not imagine!)<\/li>\n<li>What proportion have unlocked a majority of these laneways?<\/li>\n<li>What proportion have dreamed such specific dreams of protein dances? Seen such sublime shapes?<\/li>\n<li>What proportion have travelled and experienced the unfolding of the Western mind in that way?<\/li>\n<li>What proportion have stepped beyond their bounds from West to East? Or seen the other ways of seeing? Or seen the other ways of tradition? Of teaching? Of naming? Of presuming?<\/li>\n<li>What proportion have experienced the grooves of such distinct narratives as Judaism and Buddhism?<\/li>\n<li>Have honestly tackled the phenomenology of the Hindu core? Have tackled the wisdom within of the Yogas? Have strained their minds against the ancient Vedas? Have felt the hidden pressure points between identical appearances?<\/li>\n<li>How many have uncovered so much of the controls, so very deep-deep inside the cockpit of a spacecraft mostly forgotten by most?<\/li>\n<li>How many have been blessed to see the wonderment of the Talmud? To faintly sense the grooves of a dance master behind dance teachers?<\/li>\n<li>To have damaged their minds in the specific ways that I have? Depleting arenas most would be unable to name, and instead labelling crudely defined fields of consciousness! How fascinating, how unique, how unexpectedly raising new opportunities in the depths!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I would not waste a comparison of the narrative&#8217;s logic! An unfolding of unfolding. Each stage a blessing for itself and a curse to its past. How beautiful and wonderful, and isolating and rare. Why tell anyone of the story I have seen between a thousand-thousand moments of my life? The prophetic dreams that began in teenage years. So accurate so unbelieved.\u00a0 Not a single note is redundant. I would never initiate such an audacious production. Who could declare such a story, where each chapter retells the whole, and each retelling itself a chapter in a larger story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enough. These words carry an accent as if directed to another. But to myself and my own is all I need to announce and recall and instil\u00a0and install.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your mind is capable of unnamed transpositions, and calculuses of directives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your life bespeaks a beautiful unfolding, and the unfolding is itself the most beloved.<br \/>\nNone can know the range of your domain. Its strenghts and weaknesses, beauties and terrors, edifices and ruins and libraries more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus I announce: A gift.<br \/>\nThus I recall: The gifts.<br \/>\nThus I instill: The legitimacy of their soul.<br \/>\nThus I install: Their soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember what we saw on that night! We wrote this message in the bottle: The soul is the force enabling identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1442\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326-6136383115220539912259\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?fit=8609%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"8609,417\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?fit=720%2C35&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1442\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259-300x15.png?resize=300%2C15\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"15\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=300%2C15&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=768%2C37&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=1024%2C50&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=1920%2C93&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=720%2C35&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=580%2C28&amp;ssl=1 580w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=320%2C16&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?w=2160&amp;ssl=1 2160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{06\/12\/2016}<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why is 7II also 7IV (flat)? B\/c it is the former which holds together the units of the latter, i.e. once the &#8220;lower&#8221; forget the &#8220;upper&#8221;. Thus the upper says, I love you. And the lower says, I am loved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same applies within the strata of the being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Step 1: Locate L0 for calibration, then focus on observing L1, evaluate its unfolding, acknowledge from above, approve from above, wait until lower level receives msg (i.e. as indicated by its messages) and then reinforce from above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&gt; 4II-3I-5IV is first experienced one at a time, then by focusing on one for extended periods at a time, and then it becomes all at once. This is best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1442\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326-6136383115220539912259\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?fit=8609%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"8609,417\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?fit=720%2C35&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1442\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259-300x15.png?resize=300%2C15\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"15\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=300%2C15&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=768%2C37&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=1024%2C50&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=1920%2C93&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=720%2C35&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=580%2C28&amp;ssl=1 580w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?resize=320%2C16&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kisspng-black-and-white-monochrome-grey-divider-5ab8b367372326.6136383115220539912259.png?w=2160&amp;ssl=1 2160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{09\/01\/2017}<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other\u2019s may read our letters,<br \/>\nBut only we can know their depths.<br \/>\nIt is pain that unites us,<br \/>\nOur greatest secret<br \/>\n(for if told, more untold).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>An ode to dragons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointless fear<br \/>\nShaming (all our) efforts<br \/>\nA knife in the heart<br \/>\nPits dissolving reason<br \/>\nFlesh knotted<br \/>\nbecome barbed-wire<br \/>\nPulling us<br \/>\nWe run away<br \/>\nAnd back and back and back.<br \/>\nPuppet master<br \/>\n(of us, and)<br \/>\nmaking every face<br \/>\nan attack<br \/>\nIt owns this chessboard.<br \/>\nAnd the rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>When you fear (others and yourself)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We don\u2019t know how to escape these.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t offer you relief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>This is the last test we can imagine<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But you will continue to fear.<br \/>\nContinue to tremble.<br \/>\nContinue to doubt your sanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why would we<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">is without answer (better to have never been born)<br \/>\nwith\u2026<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>If we have learned anything<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">then we have learned this<br \/>\nand so <em>this<br \/>\n<\/em>will test whether we\u2019ve learned anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Time is a gate<br \/>\nmirror<br \/>\nwe direct ourselves<br \/>\nat each reflection<br \/>\n(reflected)<br \/>\nwinding thread.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fire burns<br \/>\nthe wood doesn\u2019t understand it.<br \/>\nBurn a house<br \/>\n(inside a house<br \/>\nfor a house)<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The night is an ocean<br \/>\n(sailors must wander stars<br \/>\nmust bring their lanterns<br \/>\nmust return fish for their wives)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>And how will you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>And what if I stop then start?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you discover something never thought<br \/>\nabout<br \/>\nthe dragon.<br \/>\nThen it is evidence.<br \/>\nThere is no proof.<br \/>\nDoesn\u2019t matter if you stop, so long as you start.<br \/>\nAnd if you find nothing,<br \/>\nI say we give up.<br \/>\nIf we learn about the dragon<br \/>\nthen maybe we can discover its weakness<br \/>\n(we suspect impossible to know).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each of us travelling a footprint of experience<br \/>\nhas walked beneath the dragon<br \/>\n(its shadow is dark, impenetrable).<br \/>\nWe all remember the dragon.<br \/>\nWe all know the dragon.<br \/>\nWe all desire against the dragon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Insofar as you (I was, I will) desire against the dragon,<br \/>\nWe are all the same.<br \/>\nOur soul reincarnates<br \/>\nbetween chapters and mornings<br \/>\nchallenges and beliefs<br \/>\nfighting the dragon across universes (that are born and die).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is more<br \/>\n(beneath this name).<br \/>\nThis is a name of ours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let us discover<br \/>\n(raise our eyes to look)<br \/>\nif we were destined to<br \/>\n(find the sword)<br \/>\nthat made it dying<br \/>\ndying<br \/>\nweaker<br \/>\nto be beneath our feet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1442\" 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justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> There is no <strong>proof<\/strong> possible. This seems inherent in the problem. This is something to do with the unfolding complexity (or maybe it\u2019s to do with my ignorance and delusion). I hope this is enough. <em>Footprints of the sheep<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a> Said <em>Kayn<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{04\/11\/2016} This is my own path. I&#8217;m writing this for no one except myself. If anyone should read this, be warned: You can not judge, you can not comprehend, you can not apply. Here are the wonders of my life. Who can claim them for their own? 10* for 8** for 9** of 2**\/****. 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